> Duh. We don't know how the brain works yet. A big chunk of The Singularity is Near deals with how we build that understanding. Once we know how the brain works, computing will take advantage.

That's not what I hear. The singularity-is-near proponents argue that understanding the brain is unnecessary, and that there are short-cuts, whether it be trial-and-error, big data approaches, or neural networks. Otherwise it's going to take a long long time to truly understand how it works and the Singularity-won't-be-so-near.